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Client-based, single-page web apps built on MVC Frameworks are all the rage in the JavaScript community at the moment but, as we found at Twitter, when you move past the TODO applications and start to build out an site that used the world over by millions of users, there are some severe limitations. We’ll talk you through those limitations and when browser-orientated MVC isn’t the best fit for your application then show an alternative approach to web application development that we’re using to rebuild a faster, simpler and more robust twitter.com. You’ll take away techniques to help you move beyond MVC and build applications that work with the web rather than try to beat it into submission.